Street Repairs On Agenda

June 20, 1999

HALLANDALE

The city will spend $278,000 in federal funds this year on roadway projects, including swale, sidewalk and drainage improvements along Hallandale Beach Boulevard from Interstate 95 to Northwest Fourth Avenue.

Other areas are streets near Ingalls Park, Bluesten Park and the Adult Community Center, as well as south of the city's water treatment plant between Northwest Fourth and Eighth avenues.

Grant funding this year was lower than requested, which reduced the scope of the improvement project, according to the city's Public Works Department. Several streets in southwest and southeast Hallandale were deleted from the project.

HOLLYWOOD

Hispanic day scheduled

Cuban-American residents will be honored by the city on Wednesday for Hispanic Recognition Day at the Hollywood Beach Community Center, 1301 S. Ocean Drive.

The 8 p.m. event will feature musical entertainment and an art exhibition.

The city's Hispanic Affairs Council, which will sponsor the event, will call special attention to outstanding Cuban-American residents.

For information, call Carlos Garcia, the city's director of financial services, at 954-921-3231.

Man kidnapped, robbed

Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Fort Lauderdale man by two men.

According to police reports, the man stopped about 5:40 p.m. June 11 at the Deli Sub Shop at the Texaco station in the 2500 block of North State Road 7.

The man, 41, told police that when he came out of the store, one of the thieves pulled out a handgun and asked him whether he was the driver of a nearby van.

When the man said yes, the two men ordered him into the van and had him drive east on Sheridan Street, past Interstate 95. The man said the thieves then ordered him to stop at three homes.

Afterward, the thieves told the man to drive them south on Dixie Highway into Hallandale, where they got out of the van and wiped down the door handles and also wiped any part of the van's exterior they might have touched.

The two men then made the man empty his pockets and took $235 in cash, police said.

Street Beat to continue

The SunTrust Street Beat, the twice-a-month free entertainment program in downtown Hollywood that has replaced the Tropical Nights and the SunTrust Artwalk events, will continue on July 1 with music and wine tasting in a number of art galleries.

The 7-11 p.m. event will feature such artists as the Fabulons, Night Runner Band, Full Power Jazz Trio and Valerie Z.

Most of the activities will be along Hollywood Boulevard and Harrison Street between Young Circle and 20th Avenue.

For information, call the city's downtown Community Redevelopment Agency at 954-921-3040.